Stealing Games: How John McGraw Transformed Baseball with the 1911 New York Giants Confectionary and a comprehensively cross-referenced index

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Stealing Games: How John McGraw Transformed Baseball with the 1911 New York Giants Confectionary and a comprehensively cross-referenced indexThe 1911 New York Giants stole an astonishing 347 bases, a record that still stands more than a century later. That alone makes them special in baseball history, but as Maury Klein relates in Stealing Games they also embodied a rapidly changing America on the cusp of a faster, more frenetic pace of life dominated by machines, technology, and urban culture. Baseball, too, was evolving from the dead ball to the live ball era the cork centered ball was